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John Ridgely (born John Huntington Rea, September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968 [citation needed]) was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits.
John Ridgely was a versatile character actor who made over 100 films at Warner Brothers during the 1930s and 1940s. Starting out in bit roles in such films as Dark Victory (1939), They Died with Their Boots On (1941) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), Ridgely eventually graduated to larger roles in such classics as Howard Hawks' Air Force ...
John Ridgely was a versatile character actor who made over 100 films at Warner Brothers during the 1930s and 1940s. Starting out in bit roles in such films as Dark Victory (1939), They Died with Their Boots On (1941) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), Ridgely eventually graduated to larger roles in such classics as Howard Hawks' Air Force ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Here we explore the life, career and legacy of ubiquitous character actor John Ridgely on the occasion of his birthday.
Sep 5, 2022 · Here are 10 things you should know about John Ridgely, born on September 6, 1909. The nearly ubiquitous actor kept as busy in the late 1930s and 1940s as anyone in Hollywood. ...more.
John Ridgely (born John Huntington Rea, September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968) was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits. He appeared in the 1946 Humphrey Bogart film The Big Sleep as blackmailing gangster Eddie Mars and had a memorable role as a suffering heart patient in the film noir Nora Prentiss (1947).
Returned from five years abroad, gangster Little John (Edward G. Robinson) is greeted warmly at first by Jack (Humphrey Bogart) and henchmen (Morgan Conway, Richard Lane, Paul Guilfoyle, John Ridgely), in Brother Orchid, 1940.
John Ridgely. Highest Rated: 100% The Letter (1940) Lowest Rated: 50% The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Birthday: Sep 6, 1909. Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He got his breakthrough as the lead in 1943 with movies like "Air Force" and "Destination Tokyo". He received top income for playing the commanding officer in Howard Hawk's "Air Force” along with John Garfield, it is based on World War II.
Biography. Character actor John Ridgely spent the majority of his career as part of the much-vaunted studio system of the 1930s and '40s, when actors were most often signed to exclusive contracts to specific studios whose executives chose projects for them.
